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landon08
Apr 21, 2009, 07:31 PM
For the State of Illinois if a father gives up all rights to a child and doesn't sign a birth certficate does he still pay?

ScottGem
Apr 21, 2009, 07:34 PM
This question has been asked and answered in hundreds of posts here.

Courts are very reluctant to grant a TPR and they will never do so just to allow a parent to get out of paying support;

N0help4u
Apr 21, 2009, 07:35 PM
If you didn't sign the birth certificate how and what are your legal rights that you feel you need to sign over?
If you are taken to court and proven by a paternity test that you are the father then NO you can't sign over rights.

Fr_Chuck
Apr 21, 2009, 07:38 PM
If a father does not sign the birth certificate then the mother will have to prove he is the father though a court ordered DNA test.

He will have to pay child support, unless he signed his rights away to allow a step parent to adopt.